For you mathemeticians..

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings, 

     I dont mean to be negatory, but, let me give you an idea of just how 
unlikely it is that this could be done.  In order to figure (or should I say 
conjure up)  such a formula, you would have to have (at the very least of many 
factors) is the modulus of elasticity for the steel core of the wire.

     Merely this is so varied because steel wire can and does have different 
amounts of carbon, iron content, sometimes nickel or other alloys of which it 
is composed. Even if the wire has an ASTM (or whatever the designator letters 
are) the standard is, in reality, a range /percentage of specific compounds 
allowed in that steel, in order for that steel to be named that specific ASTM 
number. So, within the same standard there would be variation, perhaps a minute 
amount, but never the less variable. 

     This formula, then, also would depend on other variables/factors/numbers 
you would need. They are: temperature, how often the string is played and how 
hard the blow, (string displacement). How can one predict such things?  

I do agree, though, that it would be postitively, scentifically cool, to be 
able to at least ball park this sort of thing, and master engineer string 
replacement!

Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA
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